‘Disappointed’ Aston Martin on a ‘learning curve’

Lance Stroll admits Aston Martin have a “learning curve” in front of them after a disappointing start to the season in qualifying in Bahrain.

Both drivers were knocked out in Q1 with Stroll set to line up P19 and stand-in driver Nico Hulkenberg starting P17 for the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Significant investment has been made at Aston Martin in the hope of bringing the team closer to the front-runners in Formula 1 in the coming years, but their start to 2022 has left them with work to do to catch up to their main rivals.

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Stroll looked on the bright side as points are awarded on Sundays, but admitted his car’s set-up may be sub-optimal heading into the race.

“We are disappointed with today’s result and it’s not what we expected after a positive FP3,” said the Canadian. “We made some changes to the car and perhaps they were in the wrong direction.

“In qualifying, we didn’t have the grip to extract the performance. We need to go over the data and understand it so we can learn from this.

That marks the end of our qualifying session.

We've got some hard work ahead of us tonight. We'll be ready to fight tomorrow. #F1 #BahrainGP pic.twitter.com/oVOqn6lfxv

— Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant F1 Team (@AstonMartinF1) March 19, 2022

“The early races will be a learning curve as we try to understand the